Sensitive Data of 7M Bank Customers Leaked on the Dark Web.

 

New Delhi: Sensitive data of 7 million Indian bank customers, including e-mail IDs, has been leaked.

According to the details, Internet Security Research has revealed that private information including phone numbers, email IDs of 7 million Indian debit and credit cardholders are circulating on the Dark Web.

Online banking has put millions of users at risk, being hailed as a major digital banking revelation, claiming that leaked information includes users' names, phone numbers, email IDs, and more. Their annual income includes etc.

In this regard, security researcher Rajesh Kher Raja Hariya has claimed that a database of about 2 GB has been leaked on the Dark Web which contained all the information including the account details of the users.

It was further stated that the said data is between 2010 and 2019, which can be very useful for hackers and smugglers, as the data is based on financial data, which can help them to harm the users. Are

It has also been revealed that a third party was involved in leaking the data, with which the bank had entered into an agreement to sell credit debit cards.

It was informed that the leaked data also includes the PAN numbers of about 500,000 cardholders.

It should be noted that financial data is the most expensive data on the internet. In this regard, Raja Hariya said that whether the said data was real or not, it is not clear yet, however, it is feared that someone sold it on the Dark Web, and then It became public.